Death Penalty Expert On Why Lethal Injection Is So Problematic In the wake of Arizona's botched execution, Steve Inskeep talks with Amherst professor Austin Sarat, author of the recent book ...

Full coverage of the death penalty and capital punishment in the United States and breaking news about prison inmate executions and lethal injection protocols.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

This article contains graphic details about execution. Death sentences (execution) are painful, confusing, and sad decisions ...

Botched Lethal Injection Executions Reignite Death Penalty Debate Capital punishment and lethal injection were in the news quite a bit in 2014. Unable to secure certain drugs, states began using ...

Botched executions have been around as long the death penalty. About 7 percent of lethal injections and 3 percent of all executions between 1890 and 2010 were botched, according to Austin Sarat ...

All but one of the 27 states that have the death penalty, which is opposed by 40% of Americans, are using lethal injection to execute convicted murderers on death row.. A review of the comments of the ...

In 2015, Florida death-row inmate Wayne Doty asked the state to execute him by electrocution rather than lethal injection. It’s believed to be the first such request since inmates were given a ...

Though lethal injection is the execution method most commonly used in the U.S., the rate of botched executions in recent years has been high, said Denno, pointing to a report from the Death ...

Recent lethal injection failures in Arizona, Alabama and Texas have brought increased scrutiny to the most widely used death penalty method in the US. Bobby Sherman dies at 81.

Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy. ... On Friday, nine inmates on death row, ...

There are several reasons for the decline, including states pausing executions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a decrease in death penalty practices and the availability of lethal injection drugs ...